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The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.
Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier.
No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier.
A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the
utterly bewildered.
A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the
utterly bewildered.